• Question: do you believe in aliens?

    Asked by KOALA to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Absolutely! We’d be mad to think that in the entire universe we are the only living things!

    • Photo: Alex Pool

      Alex Pool answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Great question. Personally I believe somewhere in the universe with millions of stars and planets there must be life out there.

      I don’t believe that we’re being visited by aliens at the moment or ever have been though. Just that there is life out there somewhere.

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Yes and no.
      Yes, because there are so many galaxies with so many stars (like our Sun) with so many planets (like Earth) that it’s hard to imagine that our Earth is the only one populated. Or, to put it another way, it clearly wasn’t impossible for us to come about and so it clearly isn’t impossible for life to from somewhere else.
      No, they haven’t visited Earth. They would certainly have made contact with us if they had – just think what we would do. Remeber, the distances are huge and what we know of physics tells us that space travel (real space travel, not Star Treck) to another galaxy would take an incredibly long time.

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